Share a scanner in a network server with Debian Linux

comp.unix.* will be as useful as breasts on a bull. On 17 Feb 2005 09:47:40 -0800, Guillaume Mahieu staggered into the Black Sun and said:

ISA SCSI? Yuck. Well, first thing to do is to go to the SANE project scanner. This is probably the sane-snapscan backend; the list of supported scanners says "AGFA 1236s: good, sane-snapscan".

Then you have to make sure the SCSI bus is configured properly (cables are OK and termination is OK). Then you have to modprobe the module for your SCSI card, scsimod, and sg. This may be difficult since ISA PnP is a PITA and ISA cards usually require parameters like io= and irq=. You should post the make and model# of your ISA SCSI card, so someone can advise you. Better yet, throw out that ancient ISA card and grab a PCI SCSI card, since SCSI is enough of a pain when it's attached to a decent bus. Once you've modprobed everything and installed SANE and its backends, run SANE and make sure it works.

Then you have to set something up so that a user at a remote machine can invoke SANE. I don't have any idea why anyone would want to do this--you have to be right next to the scanner to open the lid and insert originals, for $DIETY's sake. But, since SANE's GUI is X11-based, you can probably get something going pretty easily if you just set up sshd on the machine connected to the scanner, make sure that "X11Forwarding yes" is inetc-ssh-sshdconfig and do this:

(SANE runs on scannermachine and displays on machine1 thanks to ssh's X forwarding. NOTE: use -X if -Y doesn't work.)

...if you set your users' public keys up properly, you could create a small shell script that invoked those commands when a user clicks on an icon. HTH,

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